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In our series of posts about medical museums that must be seen (for earlier presentations, see here and here), the turn has now come to the on-line Museum of Scientifically Accurate Fabric Brain Art which “exhibits the world’s largest collection of anatomically correct fabric art inspired by research from neuroscience and dissection”. This “world’s largest” […]

Universeum meeting, Strasbourg, 22-24 June 2006 First announcement: Inventorying and preserving university collections – what for? During the last few years, due to a significant rise in concern about academic heritage, special attention has been given to university museums and collections. Numerous initiatives have emerged all over Europe, mainly focused on building databases, i.e. inventories […]

Der er intet uddrag, da dette er et beskyttet indlæg.

Inaugural Science Communication Postgraduate Conference Science and the Public: interdisciplinary approaches Saturday, May 20th 2006, Imperial College, London This day-long postgraduate conference has been organised by Imperial College and the London PUS Seminar Group to help bring together researchers from the disparate strands of academia that consider science as it exists and influences public life. […]

(pic borrowed from: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~evers/think/mimesis/theory.htm) ‘Representation’ is not only a key concept in biomedicine, but also in museology and in the history of medicine. In all three realms the concept of ‘representation’ bridges the gulf between ‘pure’ science and ‘pure’ art. Scientific reports, historical narratives and exhibitions — all three transcend the neat dichotomy between culture […]

If you want a nice pet for your kids, why go to a home for abandoned cats (it only makes you feel bad because you can’t buy them all) or get in trouble with your neighbor who sold you the most wonderful kitten (it just happened to grew into a psychotic monster)? Get a fresh […]

Ugen mellem jul og nytår er for mig altid en meditativ uge — med mere eller mindre eksistentielle ransagelser og kvababbelser (“hvad gjorde jeg nu forkert i året der gik”, “jeg ønsker jeg havde …”, “shit også …”) og indimellem glæde over, at der trods alt var noget, der ikke gik helt galt. Idag, da […]

Those who missed the conference ‘Biomedicine in the Twentieth Century: Practices, Policies, and Politics’ at NIH, Bethesday, 5-6 December can now watch video recordings of the talks through NIH’s website: go to http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp, click on ’50 Most Recent VideoCasts’ (they’ve got a lot of video-filmed conferences over there!) and scroll down to 5-6 December. Be […]

In our irregular series of posts about medical museums that must be seen (see earlier presentation here), the turn has now come to The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices, now at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Founded by a certain Bob McCoy (when?) it contains some 250 quack devices from the 19th and 20th centuries, […]

Den här essän skrevs som bidrag till konferensen “Medicinhistoria idag” (se annonce här), som hölls på Nobelmuseet i Stockholm den 22 august 2005. Konferensens målsättning var att “inventera och diskutera var svensk medicinhistorisk forskning står idag och vart den är på väg” (not 1) och ingick i den inledande sessionen om “Medicinhistoriens historia”, tillsammans med […]

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science announces two postdoctoral fellowships in conjunction with the Research Network „History of Scientific Objects“. (see also former post of 9 December)

Re. earlier posts on this blog about human remains, I just found out that ebay.com has a policy about handling human remains: